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Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2415-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2415-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Research article
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16 May 2023
Research article |  | 16 May 2023

Applicability of the low-cost OPC-N3 optical particle counter for microphysical measurements of fog

Katarzyna Nurowska, Moein Mohammadi, Szymon Malinowski, and Krzysztof Markowicz

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In this paper we evaluate the low-cost Alphasense OPC-N3 optical particle counter for measurements of fog microphysics. We compare OPC-N3 with the Oxford Lasers VisiSize D30. This work is significant because OPC-N3 can be used with drones for vertical profiles in fog.
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